About the Author

David Karpf is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He teaches and conducts research on Internet politics, with a focus on organized political advocacy campaigns in the digital age. He is the author of two books, The MoveOn Effect (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Analytic Activism (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a history of the digital future, which he wrote about for the October 2018 issue of WIRED magazine.